1509 > More is the spokesman of the London " Mercers " in their negotiations, in London, with the Pensionary of the city of Antwerp, legal adviser of the mayor and aldermen. That of Antwerp, from 1506 to 1536, was Jacob Voecht, to whom Erasmus has dedicated his edition of Cicero's " De Officiis "

1520 > Reformer Martin Luther sent his pamphlet 'On the Freedom of a Christian' (also known as 'A Treatise on Christian Liberty') to Pope Leo X. Luther empazise the 'two-fold nature' of Christians as saints and sinners, flesh and spirit. Luther believed that a Christian becomes free from the bondage of sin by faith rather than good works. This was his doctrine of justification by faith alone.